Bills in the 2024 Regular Session, House.
Mark Gamba
Sponsored
Out of committee2
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to guarantee local governments' deferral of system development charges for housing developments.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study infrastructure financing in Oregon by considering and evaluating tools the state may use to have a positive effect on infrastructure and housing costs in Oregon.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
Creates the crime of interfering with an investigation into an offense against an animal.
Declares a state policy to support engagement between offshore wind developers and impacted organizations, communities and tribes.
Establishes the Emergency Medical Services Program and Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board within the Oregon Health Authority.
Requires the Department of Education to establish and administer the Summer Learning Grant program.
Directs the Oregon Investment Council and the State Treasurer to make efforts to eliminate certain investments in thermal coal companies.
Directs the Department of Education to establish and administer a pilot program for students who are foster children.
Establishes the CHIPS Child Care Fund.
Requires an insurer, a pharmacy benefit manager and a health care service contractor to count payments made by or on behalf of an enrollee for the costs of certain prescription drugs when calculating the enrollee's contribution to an out-of-pocket maximum, deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other required cost-sharing for the drugs.
Modifies the definition of "supervisory employee" to include certain employees and exclude certain strike-prohibited public employees.
Creates rules and standards for warehouse employees' quota requirements.
Requires the Department of Human Services and the Oregon Health Authority to contract with no more than two agencies to provide agency with choice services to individuals who are older adults or who have disabilities.
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, the State Fish and Wildlife Commission and the Department of State Lands to implement the Ocean Policy Advisory Council recommendations to develop an adaptive management and social monitoring program to support marine reserves.
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to provide grants to cities for specified infrastructure projects that will benefit housing developments that will make at least 30 percent of the dwelling units affordable to workforce income households.
Expands the exemption from the licensure requirement for certain nurses.
Directs the Department of Justice to include in future budget requests amounts necessary to fund children's advocacy centers, the Survivor Housing Funds grant program and the Oregon Domestic and Sexual Violence Services Fund.
Criminalizes the creation of a visual recording of aggravated animal abuse.
Provides that a petition for a Family Abuse Prevention Act order, Elderly Persons and Persons with Disabilities Abuse Prevention Act order or sexual abuse restraining order may be filed in the county in which the abuse occurred.
Permits an education provider to have stop arm cameras on school buses for the purpose of recording persons who fail to stop for bus safety lights.
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to be licensed by the Department of Consumer and Business Services beginning January 1, 2025.
Directs the System of Care Advisory Council to establish a subcommittee on the youth behavioral health workforce.
Modifies the length of time by which a person is considered a student for purposes of determining if conduct is prohibited sexual conduct.
Passed the House · 2
Prohibits the Energy Facility Siting Council from exercising jurisdiction over or requiring a site certificate for an energy facility that is a renewable energy facility or transmission line, is sited wholly within federal lands and is subject to review under the National Environmental Policy Act.
Prohibits a shareholder, director or officer of a domestic or foreign professional corporation organized for the purpose of practicing medicine or naturopathic medicine, or for the purpose of allowing physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to jointly render professional health care services, from owning or controlling shares in, serving as a director or officer of, being an employee or contractor of or otherwise participating in managing both the professional corporation and a management services organization with which the professional corporation has a contract.
Out of committee · 8
Directs the Oregon State University Extension Service and the College of Agricultural Sciences of Oregon State University to study the distribution and occurrence of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) found in biosolids applied to agricultural fields that do not produce crops intended for human consumption.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to modify the amounts of grants for school-based health centers for inflation.
Requires hospitals to take certain actions with respect to protecting hospital employees from workplace assaults.
Modifies the process for setting aside convictions, dismissals, contempt of court findings and guilty except for insanity judgments.
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to adopt rules to govern procurements from clean energy technology manufacturing companies.
Directs the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a procurement and enter into a contract with a qualified vendor to conduct a study on the impact of Senate Bill 242 (2011) and Senate Bill 270 (2013) on higher education in this state.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Housing and Community Services Department for the purpose of making matching deposits into individual development accounts.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to expand programs related to wildlife disease.
In committee · 9
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to pay a fee to the City of Salem for the share of the city's budget for fire, police and emergency medical services provided to state agencies.
Establishes a task force to develop a plan for the Legislative Assembly to establish a statewide public safety funding authority in Oregon in accordance with House Joint Resolution 201 (2024).
Imposes requirements on hospitals regarding predictive scheduling and on-call shifts.
Authorizes a federal firearms licensee to enter into a firearm hold agreement with a firearm owner.
Prohibits the recovery from customers of certain costs and expenses that a public utility incurs as a result of negligence or a higher degree of fault on the part of the public utility.
Repeals the prohibition on local rent control.
Creates the crime of threatening a mass injury event.
Increases the penalties for making, delivering or possessing an object that is used to render a drug into a counterfeit substance.
Requires the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Advancement to contract with entities to provide eligible newcomers with case management, short-term and long-term support services.